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April 6 , 2006

Tall Stacks Announces Steamboat City New Attraction in 2006

NEWPORT, KY. – The quality educational offerings at the world’s largest riverboat festival will be even more spectacular at this October’s event.

Tall Stacks is excited to announce a new attraction at the 2006 event, Steamboat City, a history-based educational destination in neighboring Newport, Ky. This revamped attraction just across the river from the main Tall Stacks site will give guests a first-hand glimpse of life during the Civil War with authentic demonstrations and re-enactments and showcase working river vessels from the past and present.

“ Steamboat City is another great example of the continued emphasis Tall Stacks places on education,” says Fred Craig, president and chairman of the non-profit board that oversees Tall Stacks. “We are excited to be providing the community with such a great opportunity to learn about a significant era in Greater Cincinnati history and are proud to offer up an event that showcases our great region.”

Steamboat City will feature live interpretations of life on the river in the 1800s, complete with Civil War encampments and demonstrations by costumed actors. This new feature will add eight hands-on learning stations to the already extensive education component of the festival. Kids and grown-ups alike will enjoy exhibits at the site of the historic Newport Barracks, where Civil War re-enactors will camp for the duration of the festival. The re-enactors will offer demonstrations of cannon firings, marching drills, a field hospital and more, which will be coordinated by the Mid States Living History Association. (www.midstateshistory.org)

Visitors will also get an authentic view of community life in the 1800s as costumed actors make soap, candles and other crafts and demonstrate how everyday tasks, such as making dinner, were done the old-fashioned way. Guests can then walk down to the riverfront to explore working river vessels from the 1800s through today. This exhibit will include vessels from historic and modern tugboats to Coast Guard Cutters.

The authentic historical content in Steamboat City and Sawyertown, an interactive education area on the Cincinnati side of the river, make Tall Stacks a quality attraction for history buffs, families and students. More than 20,000 school children visited the incredibly popular Sawyertown and field trips are currently booking now for both destinations. Students 18 and under are admitted free when part of a field trip. Sawyertown will be enhanced for the 2006 event with 10 hands-on destinations that bring the history of the steamboat era to life for kids through storytelling, first-person interpretation, demonstrations and interactive activities. Both education areas are included in the price of the five-day festival admission, which is free to kids 12 and under. For more information about Steamboat City and Sawyertown, visit the Kids and Teachers section at www.tallstacks.com.

Tall Stacks, Music Arts & Heritage Festival returns to the Port of Cincinnati October 4-8, 2006. With 17 riverboats hailing from 11 cities and nightly headline musical entertainment onshore, the sixth installment of the popular festival expects more than a million visitors to the banks of the Ohio River. Tall Stacks presenting sponsors include Edyth and Carl Lindner, Bud Light, Cincinnati Bell, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cinergy, Fifth Third Bank, Kroger Company, Procter and Gamble and WLWT-TV. For information on the Tall Stacks Music, Arts & Heritage Festival 2006, visit www.tallstacks.com.